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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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I found this fight to be much easier without summons. After I lost the first time I kept trying summons, but every single person would die right away leaving me with boss with too much health to handle. Just got to circle and wait for combos to finish get couple hits in repeat. First phase is hard imo because of that grab attack.
lmfao
I beat it on the first try, and the way I did it is that I stayed on its ass. It doesn't turn very quickly, and you can avoid 80% of its attacks this way, and with an occasional roll. Do this for the entire fight, and make attacks here and there.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Pay attention to the timing of her attacks. There's a bunch of weird delayed hits that seem like total BS at first, but eventually you get used to them and they're nothing
If you stay away from her she can't do anything besides poke (with a fairly obvious tell). Just bait out her moveset and try to learn it as best you can
I totally get that she seems like a brick wall at first (and the grab move is some shit at first) but when the fight clicks you realize that her grab move sucks and you can drop her to phase two in 30 seconds
She's all about the tells. As lame as it sounds the fight is very much a dance, constantly be circling around her, keeping her moving. Punish when she whiffs but leave yourself room to dodge when needed
activatethesmile
Member
Getting invaded by someone using the Sacred Flame glitch... that was legit the actual first time I ever got really angry towards someone invading my game.
Fucking cheating bastard.
Fucking cheating bastard.
Finally found my fashion soul... (because the preferred Firelink chest armor set clips with my favorite helm in the game that MUST BE USED!)
That said, I have a post-game question that I only ever saw now that I started helping people again:
That said, I have a post-game question that I only ever saw now that I started helping people again:
why do all the hosts have little fire inside of them now?
Empty Space
Member
Its the miracle Tears of Denial, which has become incredibly popular for pvp purposes. It lets the player survive a lethal attack with 1hp and only require 15 faith to cast. Annoys the hell out of me. I'm fine with it in concept, but only as a high level faith spell that requires heavy investment. Seeing someone with a 40/40 build use it drive me crazy.
funkystudent
Member
Level 85.
Got to Nameless King.
This boss is going to be a real fucker isnt he?
Archdragon Peak in general was a bit of a jump in difficulty. Like a proper old souls era. Shield up at all times, accidentally falling off ledges. Running away from Dragons shooting fire at you. etc...
FUN TIMES.
Got to Nameless King.
This boss is going to be a real fucker isnt he?
Archdragon Peak in general was a bit of a jump in difficulty. Like a proper old souls era. Shield up at all times, accidentally falling off ledges. Running away from Dragons shooting fire at you. etc...
FUN TIMES.
Tarkus
Member
In PvP, I've yet to see someone cast it. The only miracles I see are buffs. One guy threw a lightning spear and I've seen a large circular force beam come from a sword a couple of times. Otherwise, miracles are underused at SL110.
Oh okay. I was seeing it on everyone even in support summons, got really confused!
Empty Space
Member
I see it constantly when I invade. I've taken to wearing the gloves from the thorn set to counteract it.
Tarkus
Member
Oh, I'm almost exclusively doing Red Sign summons. I love my 1v1 duels.
Empty Space
Member
Shield of Want.
Tarkus
Member
Shield of Want
Benzychenz
Member
Man, I hate how NG+ works in regards to DLC in these games.
I want to keep my character at the end of NG until all the DLC is out, but at the same time I want to work on the plat.
I've collected and the rings and spells I can, so I might do the covenants now so that all I have left is the +1 and +2 rings, NPC quest line spells/gestures, and endings, which I'll wait until the final DLC is out next year or whenever to do :/
I want to keep my character at the end of NG until all the DLC is out, but at the same time I want to work on the plat.
I've collected and the rings and spells I can, so I might do the covenants now so that all I have left is the +1 and +2 rings, NPC quest line spells/gestures, and endings, which I'll wait until the final DLC is out next year or whenever to do :/
Empty Space
Member
You could make a save backup of NG or find a friend to trade anything important over to a new character.
Benzychenz
Member
A backup would mean that when the DLC drops I'd have to delete my progress with the +2 rings and everything though to continue with my NG save.
Waiting seems like the best option.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Nah you are pretty high level IMO for ng. Only issue will most likely the camera at first.
KittenMaster
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I knew there was a shotel with bleed. Carthus Shotel is shaping up to be a favorite already.
There's also the
Symbol of Avarace
The game seems to be loading only the immediate area for faster loading. Good idea considering you have to constantly warp there. If you run around a bit the fog will disappear. Like run up to the spot with patches and turn around and it will be gone.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Black Knight Glaive PVP action:
https://youtu.be/BG5jDnlIarY
It's quite good I might say, won like 8 or 9 duels in a row with it. #Spin2WinBaby
https://youtu.be/BG5jDnlIarY
It's quite good I might say, won like 8 or 9 duels in a row with it. #Spin2WinBaby
Tarkus
Member
Yeah it's good. Too good. I just fully upgraded mine to play with for a while before they nerf my guaranteed 4 hit combo of death.
Its too good relative to other glaives, imo. But I think all of the Black Knight weapons are "too good" or "really good" relative to their normal counterparts.
Langdon Alger
Banned
Thanks. I ended up beating her, but it took me like ten more tries, and in the end I won not by using strategy, but by just staying as close to her as possible and just constantly, blindly wailing on her with an occasional dodge thrown it. It was probably just pure luck.
RespectThySole
Member
Stay on her ass(avoids the grab move) and be aggressive. It's actually tougher if you play it defensively.
You can mix the Pontiff Knight set with Dancer stuff pretty well. The gloves leave the arms exposed though, so you might want to mix in something else in that slot.
KittenMaster
Member
It really sucks when you work really hard fighting a group of hosts (with help from other invaders), only to die to a purple invader 
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Trying to get summoned as a Darkmoon with my friend. I cannot get summoned as either Darkmoon of Aldrich faithful, but he puts on both and gets summoned near instanetously. What. The. Fuck.
I'm 104 and he is 132.
I'm 104 and he is 132.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Warden Twinblades are pretty good. They have bleed.
KittenMaster
Member
There are weapons with a higher critical modifier that will do more damage with a reposte/backstab. IIRC these are weapons like daggers and thrusting swords. I am sure there are big heavy weapons that have a high critical modifier (especially since they're the most common reposte weapons) but I don't know what they are specifically.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Not backstabbing, but if you're looking to one-shot players - look no further than the Profaned Greatsword's charged R2 with the Leo Ring:
https://youtu.be/S-rWfIHnrOQ
Purple phantoms can help you or kill you.
The last lord of cinder boss fight is making me SCREAM
So true. All of the spells are too slow and easily dodgeable.
So true. All of the spells are too slow and easily dodgeable.
justgames7604
Member
Got my symbol of aviarice from the mimic i used to help kill the demon. Got both my demons fist and head gear all at once. Pretty good stuff so far.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
When you get summoned as a Blue Sentinel and walk in on the host, his sunbro, two mad phantoms, and a red invader and the host has popped a tree seed so the enemies are attacking everyone.
Continuing my pyro playthrough (after NG and NG+ as melee), and damn. Yesterday I beat five bosses in two hours. Today I got to P
L
. Died 10-15 times. There is so little predictability in which attacks have enough downtime to cast a spell. Sometimes you're good, sometimes he'll follow up with a third attack or just start another combo before there is time for a spell + roll. Rage quit.
I think I'm done with the game after 37 hours. All-time low for a Souls game for me, though Bloodborne was less. I like Bloodborne more, but was miffed it railroaded me into NG+ after beating Gehrman so I quit playing.
rince
othric
I think I'm done with the game after 37 hours. All-time low for a Souls game for me, though Bloodborne was less. I like Bloodborne more, but was miffed it railroaded me into NG+ after beating Gehrman so I quit playing.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Well, an unexpected backfire to jumping from level 55 to 85 in one session is that I'm getting DESTROYED in PvP now. Holy shit. I'm seriously like 1 for 10 tonight. I had no idea I was this bad.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
I actually got summoned as a Darkmoon!!
When you get summoned as a Blue Sentinel and walk in on the host, his sunbro, two mad phantoms, and a red invader and the host has popped a tree seed so the enemies are attacking everyone.
Exactly this happened to me yesterday.
Yeesh.
No matter how 'gud' you get - this is effectively impossible situation.
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